Veilguard is going to be a good entry point for anyone who likes action (button mashing) combat and pretty companions who have opinions about EVERYTHING. : ) It's not open world, you have a hub called the Lighthouse where your party hangs and from there you can decide which location to go to and which quest to do. The hair on everybody is gorgeous. I am enjoying it, but it's not groundbreaking - at least in the gameplay. I'm probably not halfway through so it still has time for the story to wow me.
I hated BG3 because I ran around constantly second guessing myself about if I missed something important/entertaining, the NPCs constantly moved and talked over each other so I couldn't even hear my party banter, and the combat took forever. There might be a cool tree over there, and 30 years of gaming has trained me to figure out a way to get over there for loot/quest/whatever and BG3 just had . . . a tree. I still suffered through 80+ hours so I could get through my vampire boyfriend's quest line but I quit right after that and decided that they lived happily ever after.
So, your mileage may vary? People complained about the art style of DAV but it's really grown on me.
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Date: 2024-11-07 09:15 pm (UTC)I hated BG3 because I ran around constantly second guessing myself about if I missed something important/entertaining, the NPCs constantly moved and talked over each other so I couldn't even hear my party banter, and the combat took forever. There might be a cool tree over there, and 30 years of gaming has trained me to figure out a way to get over there for loot/quest/whatever and BG3 just had . . . a tree. I still suffered through 80+ hours so I could get through my vampire boyfriend's quest line but I quit right after that and decided that they lived happily ever after.
So, your mileage may vary? People complained about the art style of DAV but it's really grown on me.